Transcommunality Summary

In the Childs’s reading on ‘Transcommunality’, he first stated that the desire to rooted affiliation is not the source of the problem for the crisis of diversity, but the lack of constructive and mutually respectful from interactions among the diverse settings is. He proposed Transcommunality as a way to maintain particularistic root affiliations while creating a corporation where both diverse and divergent that occur among partners are mutually recognized, accepted and understood. This Transcommunal approach entailed the concept of Pachukutiq’s ‘change of direction’ from a linear worldview to a more circular oriented path where all angles and approaches can lead to the same central point while maintaining their own distinct position. In other words, in the midst …show more content…
He addressed the confederacy symbol -the longhouse provided by the Peacemaker (which signified how people living together as families in the same house in the past and signifies how people supporting and value the traditional culture today), the Haudenosaunee Confederacy that was renowned for its organization and democratic system, as well as the Confederacy that’s also known as the league of five nations agreed to live under the Great Law as provided by the Peacemaker. After explaining the nine elements of Transcommunality in details (Words and Deeds, Task- Focused outlooks, Shared Practical Action, Constructive Disputing, The Necessity of Interpersonal Relation, Creation of Transcommunal Association, Practical Vision, The Engaged/Disengaged Flexibility of Transcommunality, Dangers of Transcommunal Success: From Bridges to Islands), Childs concluded that diversity is not a problem but essentially a part of the solution to the question of how to combine cooperation and